In the BBC’s article of February 18 about Honda closing its Swindon car plant, there were approximately 75 lines of narrative.

Of these 31 could be classed as neutral i.e. not mentioning Brexit at all, 24 made the case that Brexit was not to blame and 20 that it was.

One has to go to lines 14-15 before we get the first Brexit related comment from Unite union official Des Quinn who blamed the ‘chaotic Brexit uncertainty’ for the decision.

This is countered by Brexit-supporting local MP Justin Tomlinson on lines 29-30 that ‘it was based on global trends and not Brexit’. Bias is not the expression of a view that you do not like Mr Mercer. It is, however, expressing only one side of an argument without backing it up by evidence, something I am afraid you are far more guilty of than the BBC.